The DC animation wagon of quality just keeps on trucking with the latest offering Batman: Year One, adapted from Frank Miller's seminal comic of the same name. Not long to wait now as it'll be released in the US 18th October.

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Back again for the final update with Logan's teams now complete. First question I have is this Beast The Dark Beast or our very own 616 Beast? I've always been a big Beast, whichever universe he's from so I'm happy to see him back in the X-fold. Is that Rachel Grey/Summers looking all hound-like backing up X-Men: Legacy? Pretty cool if it is. How long has X-Factor has such a large team? Not read it in a while but the ranks seem to have swelled quite considerably since I last turned those pages. Seems more like a Detective Army rather than Agency.

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With the return of "Fringe" to American TV, shouldn't the question be "Is Peter Alive....?"

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Whatever you think about the last Ghost Rider movie and whatever you think about this new one, you have to admit that as a teaser this poster is pretty cool. *UPDATED* And now here's the trailer:

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Only now getting a chance to look at this latest X-Men Regensis teaser and a few points occur to me. Firstly, I have no idea who is in this team or how that may change because of Schism. For some reason just couldn't be bothered with Legacy, it seemed so detached from the rest of the X-Universe I figured that I could get away without reading it, apart from the Age of X stuff and the less said about that, the better.

Next up, and this is more interesting, to me anyway, the above image came with this copy:

"Acclaimed writer Mike Carey presents the final arc of his six year X-Men epic this November, alongside superstar artist Khoi Pham.
Who’s with Rogue and what does Carey’s last arc mean for the X-Men? Join the conversation on Twitter with #XMenRegenesis!"

Does that suggest to you that Mike Carey will soon be leaving the book, because that's what it says to me. Did everyone else know about this? Why am I always last to know? Seeing as Legacy is Carey's title, will it continue much beyond the Regenesis? Seems like the perfect time to bump it off to me, we all know there are far too many X-titles out there anyway.

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From issue #13, Generation Hope will no longer be written by Kieron Gillen and Sebastian Shaw will be heading up the team. No I haven't lost my mind, it's all part of the X-Men Regenesis that's coming off the back of Schism. The new writer will be James Asmus who's definitely got some X-Men form having written some Dark X-Men: The Beginning, specifically the Mimic story and some of the Manifest Destiny stories, clearly they've been gearing him up to take over an X-book for quite some time now. He'll be joined by artist Ibraim Roberson who also worked on Dark X-Men, The Zombie Survival Guide and then some the Second Coming stories, I'm a big fan of his classical pencils and especially the way he renders Hope:

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Looks like I better start seasoning up one of my hats for the chow down challenge of the century. If you're wondering what the hell I'm talking about, I can point in the direction of Yesterday's Fantastic Four post here. This teaser file is actually called FourFinal.jpeg and it's Friday so it's probably safe to say if this isn't the last one, then I'll cut off my right pinky (a little Smodcast joke there for those in the know, complete nonsense for those who aren't).

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So I'm guessing Thor isn't going to make it through Fear Itself if there's a new Thunder God in town taking over from the norse goldilockes in The Mighty Thor #8. Thanks for the spoilers Marvel, well in all fairness there is a preview in the back of Fear Itself that suggests as much. So who exactly is this Vigo the Carpathian looking pretender to the crown? From the very limited research I have done, I can use google, the information after the jump could be considered even more spoilerific...or not, proceed at your own peril.

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If this isn't the final Fantastic Four #600 teaser, I'll eat one of my many hats. The cat is now well and truly out of the bag, all of the Fantastic Four stuff we've been showing this week, here and here has eluded to the Fantastic Four title returning to it's original numbering but now it's for definite.

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The latest Fantastic Four teaser from Marvel seems to suggest that Johnny Storm is making his way back to the Fantastic family, not so sure myself, not enough time has passed, it would be a mistake. However, if you follow Joe Quesada on twitter, you'd have known this was coming quite some time ago as the artist and Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment has been tweeting the development of this image for the last few weeks. Follow the jump to see the development of this Fantatsic Four image from pencils to finished product:

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